and their entourage in this virtual world and explore the Barbie version of Malibu to build your own Barbie Dreamhouse. Create and customize your avatar with different options such as makeup ...

Barbie sales plummeted 20% from 2012 to 2014 and continued to fall last year. A line of toys designed to teach girls to build ... whom she uses as her “own little focus group.” ...

Meanwhile, the efforts of the Kens to establish their own sense of place and purpose in Barbie Land is equally open to fun exploration and new lessons learned — and misunderstood — by the Kens.

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The sheer volume of Barbie collaborations played a large role in the virality of the movie. Before the movies premiere, 100+ brand partnerships had been launched. Collaborations attract publicity and ...

"Barbie" is expected to take between $95 million and $110 million from ticket sales in North America alone, which would match what we assume was spent on marketing. Of course studios have to make ...

A Barbie-branded phone has been launched in the UK and Europe with the aim – its makers say – of helping young people take a break from their smartphones. It is a very pink and fundamentally ...

Barbie heads to the Bahamas ... but this does not influence our evaluations or ratings. Our opinions are our own.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover home ... conceptualized years before Barbie reclaimed the mainstream media and took five years to build. It was completed in ...